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i hate when black people talk about the way other black people talk. you always hear somebody make fun of somebody who sounds “too white,” and that’s crazy to me.

what is sounding white, anyway!? i never got it. if you grew up in the suburbs, most of which tend to have substantially less black people than areas closer to the city, and you went to a private school, most of which are more expensive and not very diverse, then the chances are, you will grow up to be a product of your environment. so how can anybody be stupid enough to say something like “you aren’t black enough?” what is black?

i thought about all of this after reading this article on bill cosby’s daughter, evin. peep the excerpt:

“My own people used to say to me, ‘You speak like a white woman.’ What does that even mean, anyway? Everyone has their way of speaking and living their life. No one should be judging and assuming that because I’m black, I have to speak in that hip-hop way. That’s something I prefer not to do.”

oh boy! the hip hop way!? i don’t know about all that, evin. but i while she may have offended a bunch of black people with that statement, i know what she’s trying to say. and i co-sign. somebody once told me, jokingly, that i wasn’t really black. and i said, “i’m nigerian. i’m the blackest you can get. when you get there, let me know.” got’em. lifestyle defines everything. take a sociology class and your mind realizes all this stuff.

don’t take it from me, though. just let my man remington wallace burnett break it down for you. LOL. this is a must watch!